Speaker of Osolia

Chiefdom of Osolia Speaker
Incumbent TheRandomMelon since August 16, 2024
Style	Speaker (formal)
Member of	Osolian Assembly
Appointer	General election
Term length	2 months
Formation	15 December 2023 (2023--15)
First holder	tz_scion

The Speaker of Osolia is the leader of the legislative branch of Osolia and the head of the Assembly. The Speaker's general duty is to represent the will of the Assembly by conducting votes on bills (i.e. laws) and on special measures such as removing/appointing a citizen to the Chief's Council.

Additionally, the Osolian Constitution grants the Speaker the power to maintain order during Assembly hearings/debates, establish committees to provide recommendations on specific issues, and the authority to officially conduct Osolian elections.

History

Beginnings and precedents (December 15, 2023 - August 16, 2024)

The Speaker position was created alongside the Chiefdom of Osolia itself on December 15, 2023. tz_scion was elected unopposed to become the first Speaker, and he has enacted numerous decisions that were previously vague in the Constitution, setting important precedent.

For instance, the first, and arguably the most important, thing he did as Speaker was write a majority of and lobby for the passage of the official Constitution of the Chiefdom of Osolia, which establishes how the general government system operates. This standardized many Assembly procedures, such as a minimum 24 hour voting period for bills and measures.

He also ran the first election in Osolian history, establishing precedent such as keeping candidacy open all the way until election day and guiding everyone through the first election to use the my.osolia online voting system, the June 2024 Osolian general election.

He also was the first elected official to utilize the Constitution's power to assign an "acting" person in place of himself when a short-term personal issue affected him on June 27, 2024. He chose Michael Webb, the first and former Chief of Osolia, due to his long-term experience in Osolian politics. During this time, Acting Speaker Webb passed the Post Office Act, establishing the Osolian Post Office and the mail system in general. Speaker Scion set a precedent in this by giving a time when he would re-establish control over the Speaker role, instead of simply taking it back immediately upon becoming available again as is described in the Constitution. He would again use this acting person power on July 13, 2024, this time for multiple days due to power outage issues. He took back the Speaker position on July 17, 2024.

Speaker Scion was also the first Speaker to establish a committee per the Constitution; the Engagement Committee. The Engagement Committee is dedicated to finding and proposing policies to make it more appealing to regularly log into the Osolian Minecraft server. They are still actively working on new methods to engage citizenry, such as employing occasional Osolian Hangout Nights to encourage a large group of citizens to come online at the same time and invoke a sense of community. Speaker Scion also currently serves as the chair of the Engagement Committee.

Speaker Scion decided not to run for re-election during the August 2024 Osolian general election, at first due to running for Chief instead, but later dropping out from Osolian politics entirely, at least temporarily. He held the Speaker position until a new Speaker was elected to replace him on August 16, 2024. This marked the first time since Osolia's founding 7 months prior that a Speaker other than tz_scion would be elected.

A new Speaker (August 16, 2024 - present)

Speaker Michael Webb was elected on August 16, 2024. He immediately pushed for change in the Speakership role, such as announcing the first formal Assembly meeting on August 19, 2024, which would take place on August 23, 2024.

Before that took place, however, he also formed the Intelligence Committee on August 19, 2024 in secret to protect the information and whistleblowers involved in the committee. This committee was established to write a formal report regarding findings that show Cieurnish interference in the Chiefdom of Osolia, such as attempts to obtain private information about some Osolians, hiring a spy within Osolia, and trying to formulate plans to invade the Chiefdom government with Cieurnish officials. The Committee was disbanded immediately following the release of this report to prevent further secretive government activity.

Furthermore, he has instituted the Assembly Rules, a set of rules that standardizes how official Assembly proceedings should be conducted, along with the #assembly-discussions Discord forum channel, which better structures and compartmentalizes important discussions going on, such as economic reform and the debate on removing treaty formation from the Constitution.

List of Osolian Speakers

Speakers Scion and Webb are currently the only Speakers in Osolian history.

	Face	Name	Term
1		tz_scion	December 15, 2023 - August 16, 2024
2		Michael Webb	August 16, 2024 - present